We are in the process of revising the uploads to conform to the Swiss copyright rules. This means removing a few books that are out of copyright only in the US and adding a few where the author died before 1944.

Congratulations to all of the eBook uploaders.

Dale

Last edited by DaleDe; 07-01-2014 at 06:14 PM.
Reason: fixed upload number

As of today the ePub uploads have finally exceeded the LRF uploads. The MOBI uploads are still more that 100 ahead. Of course if you count only English language the ePub are still way behind. We are nearing 31,000.

Today the eBook upload section was scrubbed to make everything 70yrs+death copyright compliant. Here are the new starting point numbers for uploads. We have been enforcing this for a while on new uploads so most of the removed books have been on the site for quite a while. They are retained in an offline area and will be restored in January of each year when they become compliant.

On the 17th of March we reached a milestone of 25,000 eBooks (Today there are 67 more). This does not include the boost we will get once the new books are available due to the year rollover in January. They will appear soon.

On November 9, 2015 we reached 26,000 eBooks in the MobileRead library. This statistic is based on the new 70 years after death of the author criteria for public domain. The boost for 2015 never happened but hopefully we will get that boost and the 2016 boost next January. The breakdown by format is:
Kindle formats: 7471
Sony formats: 7122
EPub formats: 8142
IMP formats: 2604
Misc formats: 663

Note that we will be changing the library arrangement in the future to a system based on Calibre so the breakout by format may go away.

It's not even easy to define what is meant with that. The "same" book could have been uploaded in different formats with slightly different thread titles (different dates, typos, different uploaders). The "same" book could be uploaded by the same uploader in different versions (illustrated, dropcaps, etc.). Several books can be uploaded in a single thread (all X novels, in separate files). A single book can be uploaded in several threads (part 1, 2...).

But our current working database (which is several months outdated by now) has more than 11000 entries (plus the "offline" books, whose number I don't remember).

The text is usually available in many other places, but the formatting here is (or should be) much better than what you get with automatic conversions. Often our books are also additionally proofread, include illustrations, etc.

6. Uploads here should add some notable "value" to a PG (or whatever) original (for example: nice reformatting, artwork, a TOC, footnotes, etc etc). There's really no point in posting here something which which a poster can get from the original source in two minutes.

Today the Patricia Clark Memorial Library E-Book Uploads reached 30,001 passing the 30,000 milestone only 4.5 years since the last time based on the change in Public Domain rules. It should get a fairly good increase again after the year end when more books become available. But for now here is what we have:
* Kindle Format: 8811 books
* Sony Format: 7738 books
* ePub Format: 9908 books
* eBookwise: 2840 books
* Misc Format: 704 books mostly PDF

In German there are more than 4100 books. 4182 are available in links from our wiki. These are mostly ePub. See Talk:Free eBooks-de/de.

Thank you to all those who continue to upload eBooks to our collection.